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New Orleans infrastructure still in disrepair

August 19, 2009 By Andrew Noakes

Four years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, New Orleans still lacks adequate basic infrastructure. Striking the city in late August 2005, Katrina left more than three quarters of New Orleans underwater, causing severe damage...

Over 200 British casualties in Afghanistan

August 19, 2009

KABUL, Aug 17 (Prensa Latina) The death of three British soldiers in the southern Helmand province raised the death toll of those troops to 204 on Monday, after their joint invasion with the United States to...

San Francisco hotel workers march for a new citywide pact

August 18, 2009

SAN FRANCISCO ― As contracts covering some 9,000 hotel workers were expiring Aug. 14, hundreds of workers and community supporters marched down Market St., the city’s main thoroughfare, and past several prime tourist hotels, proclaiming their...

As reports of compromise appear, push grows for public option

August 18, 2009 By John Wojcik

As President Obama continues his push for comprehensive health care reform and as reports emerge about “compromises” designed to win backing from Senate Blue Dog Democrats and Republicans, Health Care for America Now, a huge national...

Supreme Court orders new hearing for Troy Davis

August 18, 2009

In a significant move the Supreme Court today ordered a new hearing in the case of African American death row inmate Troy Davis accused of killing Savannah police officer Mark Allen MacPhail in 1989. Davis’s case...